Israel, An Online Documentary: Introduction

he purpose of "Israel, An Online Documentary: A Concise but thorough Primer on State Terrorism" is to provide in brief the history behind the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. To accomplish this we have made use of various sources of information. Our primary source is the Internet, for without question, as one researcher put it, "the Internet [has the] ability to present information that hasn't been censored or passed through official filters, allowing you to . . . make up your own mind" on which side of today's burning issues you want to take a stand. It seems the U.S. and many other governments, the domestic and international news media – print and electronic, and the American citizenry in general are either ignorant of past and contemporary history, especially the history of Israel, or refuse to do the necessary airing or public discussion of the issues involved from an objective and unbiased point of view, or are, considering their silence, in collusion with the despotic Israeli regime. Perhaps they have simply forgotten the extreme criminal lengths the Ashkenazi,^{1a,
1b} i.e. Jewish, colonists primarily from Eastern Europe have pursued prior to and after the 1948 declaration of an independent Jewish state. Furthermore, no unbaised attention has been paid to the plight of the Palestinians in the homeland they were deprived of. This deprivation was administered with the connivance of Britain and the United States, and the acquiescence of the so-called "developed world" under the aegis of the United Nations after World War II. It is this deprivation, human debasement and the resultant tragedy that this online documentary wishes to shed light on. This documentary will present a concise but thorough history of the birth of the "Jewish State," and offer some insight into the major events leading up to the founding of Zionism, the resultant establishment of a Zionist colony in Palestine, the Zionists' agreement to obstruct an international boycott of Nazi Germany in 1933-1934 and their collaboration with the Third Reich during the holocaust (we find no compelling reason to capitalize this word), the myths (see notes 38a, 38b below) that support their claims to Palestine, the oft repeated lies and half-truths justifying their repressive tactics, the United States' tendency to condone financially and diplomatically whatever Israel does to oppress the Palestinians, and why the Palestinians in concert with Islamic and other non-Jewish peoples are defiantly opposed to Israel's continuation as a racist^1cand terrorist Jewish state. We point out here how the Zionists use the holocaust and European and American traditional anti-Semitism to blackmail, bully, if you will, the United States, France and Germany, or the world in general, into supporting Israel come hell or high water. The problem with this position is that the Palestinians "do not believe . . . they should forfeit their land to compensate Jews for Europe's crimes against them." They are absolutely right and the non-aligned world should support their determination not to let that happen.

We are not alone in our attempt to set the national conscience on a correct course. After studying this online documentary, we suggest the reading of Noam Chomsky's (1999) powerful and thoroughly documented analysis of the conflict in The Fateful Triangle: The United States, Israel and the Palestinians (Boston: South End Press, pp. 578). In this work, Chomsky argues:

Clearly, as long as the United States provides the wherewithal, Israel will use it for its purposes. These purposes are clear enough today, and have been clear to those who chose to understand for many years: to integrate the bulk of the occupied territories with Israel in some fashion while finding a way to reduce the Arab population, to disperse the scattered refugees and crush any manifestation of Palestinian nationalism or Palestinian culture. . . . there is little basis for condemning Israel when it exploits the position of regional power afforded it by the phenomenal quantities of U.S. aid in exactly the ways that would be anticipated by any person whose head is not buried in the sand. Complaints and accusations are indeed hypocritical as long as material assistance is provided in an unending and ever-expanding flow, along with diplomatic and ideological support, the latter, by shaping the facts of history in a convenient form ("Fanning the Flames," p. 2).

Israel has for some time now held a special and reverent place in the American and European psyche. Perhaps this derives from the inherent contradictions in their Judeo-Christian religious heritage. These contradictions predispose Americans to the obviously odious and onerous tendency to block out unpleasant, contradictory memories of their past and ever present anti-Semitic feelings –

. . . the interests of the two groups [Jews and Christians] spilt apart. According to prophecy, the Jews must be in control of Israel for Jesus to return. But in the last battle, two-thirds of the Jews perish, and the rest either accept Jesus as the true Messiah or they must be damned, literally. "In my view, any theology that continues to deny the validity of Judaism and to fantasize about looking forward to the conversion or destruction of the Jews is one that should arouse a great deal of caution among Jews," argues Gershom Gorenberg, a leading Jewish expert [on the Biblical apocalypse] (Nancy Gibbs et al, "Apocalypse Now" TIME, May 1, 2002, p. 48). . . .

All such memories, save those that in recent times call up sympathetic feelings for the Jews, have been expunged.

Indeed, even archaeological knowledge questioning Biblical history is discarded. (More on this Biblical point later.) It is significant to view Israel as a "Jewish" state because Jews consider Israel to be their exclusive homeland, Eretz Yisroel ("Land of Israel"). Indeed, it is this attitude that gives rise to the conflict between the Palestinians and Israelis today. Between 1919 and 1940 the Palestinians rioted constantly against the growing Jewish colonial presence in their native land. East-West political considerations must also be factored into the memory loss equation, for Israel represents itself as an island of "democracy" in an Islamic world. Isn't this the viewpoint TV news commentators push in their analyses of the current conflict between Arabs and Jews? Is oppression a valued hallmark of democracy?^1d The East-West political equation encompasses much more than hypocritically supporting Israel's professed democratic claims; the real problem is the United States' geopolitical ideology and policies in support of its interests in dominating Southwest Asia and, in turn, supports Israel in pursuit of its objectives. More about this later.

Memories that recall Jewish and American ideological and hegemonic actions are simply washed from the general populace's brain. To cite American ignorance of Southwest Asian history (the correct geographic designation for the "Middle East") and their collective amnesia may be a simplistic understatement of the true problem with Americans. It might be closer to the truth that Americans refuse to read and understand the implications of relevant information. Hasn't it been reported that 40 million Americans cannot read or write above the 4th grade level? Is it unfair to suppose the number of functional illiterates in the U.S. may be much larger. Nevertheless, an example of the American's inability to read, assimilate and, yes, remember history is this sequence of events:

The greater the threat of war [in 1933] the more Jews desperately attempted to find a foreign country that would accept them. On 13th May 1939, the Hapag steamer St. Louis, with 937 German Jews on board, departed Cuxhaven, [Germany] on the mouth of the river Elbe west of Hamburg . . . The St. Louis sailed for the Caribbean. The atmosphere on board was gloomy as the refugees had sacrificed everything and their last hope was that Cuba would accept them. Arriving in Havana their worst fears were confirmed. The Cuban authorities refused them entry and compelled the St. Louis to depart their territorial waters. Then began an odyssey across the North Atlantic Ocean. [Not even the United States would allow them entry.] Captain Gustav Schröder sought, in vain, another host country. He steamed perforce towards Europe seeking a safe harbour for the despairing refugees, who had only just escaped the Nazi terror and on no account wanted to return to Germany where the Gestapo awaited to deport them to concentration camps. Captain Schröder, with some of the other officers, developed a plan to strand the ship on the British coast following a bogus engine problem, so as to prevent the return to Cuxhaven. At the last moment, the St. Louis obtained authorization to dock in Antwerp, in the Netherlands, and to put its passengers ashore before returning to Germany. . . . [Germany invaded the Netherlands in 1939. Once again the Jews' fate was sealed, for those who couldn't hide out, were sent to the very concentration camps they had feared].²

The above illustrates how the United States, Britain, and other nations within their sphere of influence refused a safe harbor to Jewish refugees from Nazi terror. The anti-Semitism inherent in these refusals is difficult to retain, to discuss, to teach in the nation's schools. It is even more difficult for these nations to admit.

The exodus of the Jews from Europe (not Egypt) began as early as 1882 when the wealthy and powerful French Baron Édouard de Rothschild, a Jew, started providing financial backing to Zionist colonists in Palestine as they proceeded to "redeem their land."

The methods used to dispossess the native of his land are those of the most implacable colonialism, with an even more marked racist coloring in the case of Zionism. The first stage had the characteristics of a classic colonialism: exploiting the local work force. This was the method of Baron Édouard de Rothschild: Just as he had exploited, on his vineyards in Algeria, the cheap labor of the fellahs, he had simply enlarged his sphere of activity in Palestine, exploiting on his vineyards different Arabs to the Algerians.³

From 1896 to 1948 and beyond, the Jewish invasion of Palestine was increased dramatically using terrorist tactics. Remember Leon Uris' novel "Exodus," and Otto Preminger's Jewish propaganda film based on the novel "The Exodus." Remember, too, the terrorism committed in the novel and film by the militant Irgun, Haganah and Stern Gang (see note 17) against the British and Palestinians. Reflect on some additional archaeological and political facts that help to declare false the myth that Yahweh (God) promised the land of Palestine to the Jews. One thing is certain in all this: The United States' government knows exactly what its special ideological relationship with Israel is and how this relationship's design will further its geopolitical aim to dominate the region.